The Reel Rejects - THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY 4x1 Breakdown & Review!!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:41 Umbrellas Academy, we're going to be your all day. Content. That's right, baby. All right, guys. We've got several episodes to go through. keep them short. We know that most people just binge this stuff and don't take them in an episode at a time. But because we are filming these, we have to take them in one episode at a time and review them. Pointlessly.

Starting point is 00:02:07 Let's pointlessly review it. Even though if we were just by ourselves, like all of you, we would just binge it and not think about it. Massly. We would go. Next one. Next. What do you think, Aaron? I thought it was good. I think that it was nicely when we get introduced to our characters again, see where they are six

Starting point is 00:02:24 years later. This is the most amount of time we've seen them since the first season where there's been large gaps in times since the entire castes together. I think that it was, not that it was slow, but that we only have six episodes and I feel like not a lot happened. I don't think the hook of what's the thing that needs to happen for us to guess the plot has happened yet. We're just kind of teasing it. And I feel like a lot more needs to go on quicker for there to be like, for it to warrant such a short amount of run times, a short amount of episodes. But I will say the great thing. All the cast are still great. Their chemistry is still amazing. The humor is still there. And I look forward to seeing what weird intrigue kind of unfolds. Greg, what did you think?

Starting point is 00:03:09 I could not disagree more. Really? Yeah. I thought that was a great first episode. Okay. And I think I think they introduced so much. They introduced the underground part of the timelines. you have to mainly establish your characters and where they're at and they focus so much on who they are as characters at this current point in time and I feel like there are some stakes due to the collision of timelines you could feel some type of imminent threat happening and I think that for it being six episodes that's so much shorter and part of me is wondering like

Starting point is 00:03:43 because to go from 10 to 6 probably feels like to me like they only needed 6 and they're probably telling like a movie instead of uh instead of like stretching it out because there are parts in season three especially where i was like this could have been cut out or this could have been trimmed down where it does feel stretched out to me i thought this was really tight and funny and i found it really intriguing and better than a lot of episodes of season three honestly i thought that was really great okay i think you always go negative though you're kind of known no i may i name the positive things you tend to go negative you're kind of known for that around you lean negative because you're cool you're contrarian yeah or if or people are really

Starting point is 00:04:24 negative about something you go positive i understand your your game i care i care i understand your flow i get it you know what get it the rest of the show is trash is the best episode no but i i think for me i i just watch season three like over the past two days and just watching recaps but i think i'm accustomed to the show like hey the ground running with it's like it leads with the mystery and like the weirdness and I feel like this is like a more grounded episode even though our characters are still our characters I think the best part for me we're seeing where they are now after some time has passed and I think for I'm still waiting for the the shoe to drop but not to say that I don't enjoy it I still very much enjoy

Starting point is 00:05:07 seeing all these people together you know we've watched them over the course of 30 days in three seasons and now going into season four it hasn't hooked me yet I will say that I'm in true read, but I'm not close. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I'm on the complete opposite fence of you. I forgot there was a camera rolling for a while. I was I was like sucked in. I thought this was really amazing. Yeah. I think like the different storylines offer kind of a different tone. Like this is, this was such a character-driven episode. I thought the characters were so strong. And that's one of my favorite parts about it. It's like they're powerless. And a lot of times when you strip characters away from their powers, it becomes a challenge. Like, are they really?

Starting point is 00:05:48 really are they truly interesting without their powers are they truly like fun characters to watch without their powers and i liked watching how human and more relatable they are now and how much they don't even really care for their powers but they still care to like do the right things and still fight for the right things i i think that aspect of it just makes it that much more true i feel like ben is already i feel like he he took notes in they turned him down for sure because ben in the last season was the one actor whereas like when he was ghost ben i really enjoyed him. But when he was Sparrow Academy, Ben, I just didn't believe him in the way that portrayal was done. And this is carrying over that Sparrow Academy Ben. But his delivery here in

Starting point is 00:06:27 performance just feels so much more believable all around. And I'm like, oh, okay, cool. Like, I'm glad this actor, like, took some notes in or something because I do feel like it's a market improvement. And yeah, just like the family dynamics and like the realization of everything they, this is like the umbrella academy. They always wanted a normal life. And now that they have it, they're not satisfied and then and then the mystery hook of like our our villains of what's nick offerman's wife's name fuck they're both both have the same name oh megamilalli that's megan malali yeah she looks so different now yeah because you guys her whole the will and grace girl yeah that's his wife really yeah we can look it up i'm pretty sure on parks and wreck there was

Starting point is 00:07:10 like mega malolli and then the other girl and then she was just in last of us that was his wife Last of us. Megan Malawi. Megan Malallies and Last of Us? Yeah, she was the one going after the other brothers, the Black brothers, remember? That wasn't Megan Malawi. It's not the same? No, it's not me.

Starting point is 00:07:27 Like girls from two and a half men. Oh, they look so similar. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Is that who she is? Because it sounds like her.

Starting point is 00:07:39 I could have sworn it's Megan Malawi. But Nick Offerman, a wife. No, I think you're right. I think you're right. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, she just looks so different now.

Starting point is 00:07:50 Oh, yeah, right. That's a chick from two and a half, man. I get those two actresses mixed up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She's great. But no, it's cool to see them like playing husband and wife, but embracing these roles where they're very believable as these. I don't know what you go like.

Starting point is 00:08:07 They look like hokey pokey conspiracy theory cult groups, but they're right. That's what's so fun about it. It's like it kind of has that second season. season vibe of them in the the time of the 60s of like deep state and government conspiracy and elite covering up the truth something that still happens today but that being like a really prevalent genre in the 60s and I feel like that's really carrying over here like that has a kind of vintage vibe to it yeah the contrasts like communist meetings and stuff

Starting point is 00:08:42 like that a lot yeah I enjoy the contrast of like their they're more goofier or period silly appearance with their kind of like undertones of cynicism there as well I think that stuff's very cool but you know what I don't think it grabbed me as much as it grabbed you but I will say that with it being six episodes and you're saying like oh it's like more like a mini movie I think that making that adjustment in my head rather than being like a full length episode full length season of television will kind of help me get more acclimated I don't know I mean that great I really don't know no no it

Starting point is 00:09:16 But granted, that does make sense, you know, because it's like the three acts. We're still in act one of the six-act story, or this three-act story. But to go before, I think the show had always been very character-focused. I think that's what made it what it was. It was very much based in their character and their relationships. But I think in addition to that, because I always say, like, the thing that grabs me the most about shows or movies is strong characters. I mean, I think Umbrella Academy is the perfect example of an interesting plot mixed with strong characters and strong relationships

Starting point is 00:09:48 and though I am interested in the like it has it has my curiosity but doesn't have my full attention yet I understand it's adult life and you don't know what it's like so you have a hard time dealing you have a hard time like enjoying what adult life

Starting point is 00:10:04 is like I understand I get it he's married they're married there's there's so much about responsibilities of being on their own it's really hard and I understand

Starting point is 00:10:23 this is like real life bleeding into reaction it's weird I don't know man I think it's fun I think it I know I know you can tell you

Starting point is 00:10:33 I don't really care about your really care if we have a difference of opinion no I think but yeah I'm I'm curious to see where or how Hardgrave plays into this. I'm curious to see how what other Ben plays into this.

Starting point is 00:10:50 And yeah, are we going to have this doomsday clock thing going? Because I feel like everyone is every season has had that motif of like, we got to race against the clock to like solve the thing. But we don't have that yet. I think I just became accustomed to the structure of the show and the structure is now changing. So getting reacclimated with how this season wants to present itself is something that I'm still waiting for. So that's how I feel in short. But again, I still enjoyed what we want.

Starting point is 00:11:13 No, I understand that. I remember having that effect when we started season three. And I guess I'm just more on board for something that just feels very different. You know, I feel like if you're going to do your final season, don't just repeat yourself. And I think there was like a similarity to the other three. But yeah, anyway, let's find out. Let's find out if it feels like a mini movie or if it gets rushed in the end. Let's find out.

Starting point is 00:11:40 Guys, what did you think about the first episode? Keep a lookout for a second one. Thanks for being here Saturday to be on the journey.

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The Reel Rejects - THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY 4x1 Breakdown & Review!!!!

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